My rotation was Arctic Fox Kit (or any animal with Howl)-Leap->Bite x2->Howl (it is important that you die the same round as howl is casted)Darkmoon Zep-Decoy->Explode (unless you got lucky with crits, Decoy will be casted the round that Leech Seed is about to be casted, and 2 stacks of Howl will be up, Explode does kill the Zep but also does good dmg)Mojo (Any frog with frog kiss should work)-Frog kiss x2->Water Jet->Frog Kiss. (heal if you get lower then 50% hp)-Alternately you could also use Cleansing Rain right away to buff your frogs dmg. Do keep in mind, that if ironbark is up, Frog Kiss does barely any dmg, but the CC aspect of it makes it useful still.

Comment by terralenaire

I used Eternal Strider with Water Jet, Cleansing Rain , PumpDarkmoon Zeppelin with Explode and Decoya 3rd back up pet

Comment by WindFurie

Well, i just beat him easly with... 3 toads. cleasing rain and spamm kiss, only needed to use 2 out of the 3 i had. spend a good 2 hours trying lots of pets and the toads just destroyed him

Comment by hebz

BETA: I used 3 Shimmering Snails (H/P) with Ooze Touch, Shell Shield, Dive.Started with Shell Shield, then Dive and filld with Ooze Touch untill Dive was ready again. Keept Shield up at all time.

Comment by Jarynelle

Beta: Pandaren water spirit and two frogsStarted with water spirit: geyser, whirlpool, swapfirst frog: kiss and healwhen the first frog died I swapped back to the spirit, geyser, whirlpool, and surgeused the last frog to finish him off.

Comment by Donnicton

If you have a poor menagerie of aquatics like I do, you can nearly solo this with any Rabbit. (or critter with an avoidance like dodge)

Basically Carrotus will use Leech Seed the turn immediately after going below ~1300 health, and attempt to do so again after every 4th turn.

Just hit him until he drops below 1300, use dodge to avoid Leech Seed, and then on or after every 4th turn, use dodge again. If he can't heal he's a total pushover.

Comment by Bladewoolgar

After reading a few suggestions listed here I tried the method used for Celestial tournament.

Pandaren Water spiritChrominiussnail/frog pet

Started with Spirit> Geyser>WhirlpoolSwitch to Chrom>Howl>Surge of power

after that rotation he died and an rng stun, if not, you can always switch backto spirit and do rotation again.

Comment by Miyari

I was getting pretty frustrated due to not having the best pets to effectively battle this guy, until I realized that he can be soloed with the Red Cricket in a similar fashion to some Pandaria trainer pets.

If you're attacking, Carrotus will end up using Leech Seed on turn 3 or 4 (sub-1300 health, apparently). Simply use Cocoon Strike to block the ability, and you can beat him down with Skitter. Because Carrotus is Elemental, he will do less damage to the Cricket (Critter) and you can easily keep your health up using Nature's Touch on cooldown.

Leech Seed is on a 4 round cooldown, so after you have blocked the first cast, once your Cocoon Strike is back up you can get a Skitter in before using Cocoon Strike on the next turn. With this strategy, I was able to easily one-shot him and ended the fight at high health.

The Red Cricket is not particularly easy to get, and you may be able to substitute another Cricket with a similar moveset. Just be aware that due to potential breed differences you may not be able to get in the extra Skitter before using Cocoon Strike.

Comment by Grima

Just killed him with three lvl 23 Water Striders... keeping Cleansing Rain up and spamming Pump.

Comment by semajtrip

- Glowing Toxin (keep this on at all times)- Cocoon Strike > Scratch as filler until Glowfly dies

- Dive when Leech Seed is off CD > Bite as filler until Civet dies

- Clobber > Whirlwind > Shadowflame as filler

I defeated Carrotus Maximus with only the first two pets. Any pet with dive will be very effective since it allows you to avoid being hit by Leech Seed and does excellent damage.

Comment by Reckish

Perky Pug can solo him. Trample, Trample, Perk up, and then just Perk Up on CD.

The 10% hp damage from the trample ignores all the mitigation from his shield and boss status.Alternative critters you can use with the trample areDarkmoon HatchlingMulgore HatchlingEggbertLucky Quilen Cub (rare, but also has Perk Up!)

Zao, Calfling of Niuzao isn't a critter, but also has the ability and his Wish and Niuzao's Charge abilities would be so ridiculous here that you could do use him.

Comment by Delightful78

I just killed him with a Level 23 Jungle Darter( Jungle Darter) and nothing else. I kissed him over and over and healed every 4 rounds (starting round 3). Granted it took 5 tries, but I didn't have to do any extra leg work to get more frogs or level them.

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Comment by Rycie

I just beat him with 3 aquatic pets, a jungle darter and two mirror striders. they weren't even 25 yet. I used the rain and frog kiss and after that just pump. worked fine!

Comment by Lutiki

Carrotus Maximus is one of the pets to beat for the quest Pets Versus Pests to unlock menagerie. Quest is available after upgrading city hall to level 3.

There are three pets in the quest, all are at the garrison Carrotus Maximus (elemental) - at the herb garden Iron Bark Aged York Leech SeedGorefu (aquatic) - near fishing shack Deep bite Mudslide FeedGnawface (critter) - outside main entrance Sneak Attack Come back Call darkness

Comment by Chantie

Lvl 25 Luyu Moth, soloed him. Never even had to bring out another pet, and took zero damage. Moth dust, cocoon strike, alpha strike, rinse repeat.

Comment by Iiyan

Just solo'd this guy with a level 25 Mojo. Spammed the frog kiss and used cleansing rain on CD :) Worked a charm.

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Comment by Halleewell

One level 25 Yellow Bellied Bullfrog and this guy went down. I never pressed anything other than Frog Kiss.

Comment by trixsterjl

Ok the trick.

Need 1 stun pet - stun can not be a dot or weather effect it must be an 100 percent hit non-conditional stun.Need 1 pet with 100 percent dodge. (anything that will make next attack miss)Need 1 Aquatic damage pet. (frog...)

Start with stun pet i used monk blackout kickRound 1 Buff or attack (i did 50 percent damage reduc)Round 2 attack (healing attacks nice) (i jabbed)Round 3 attack (i jabbed)Round 4 StunSWAP to evade petround 5 attack (i speed buffed to garuntee first atttack next)round 6 evade (this must be an attack first) - seed flies by- at this point seed is on a 4 round cooldown. You need the bird in the up possition and alive when the seed is tossed. you can go back to first pet and work it to death. get off 2nd stun. and repeat the swap to bird... I think i did

.... pets start to die i ended with forg but got it down before 3rd seed.

Other thoughts use a roach and 2 healing tanks. keep the battle up for 15 rounds. Instant win.**boss will only take 35 percent from this.

Comment by Xenomech

Two frogs using nothing but Frog Kiss worked for me.

Breeds I used on my first try:

Yellow-Bellied Frog (Rare - Level 23)

Health 1445

Attach 284

Speed 223

Leopard Tree Frog (Rare - Level 25)

Health 1481

Attach 244

Speed 325

Easy-peasy!

P.S.: I only got 224 xp for my level 23 frog

Comment by Belawen

After spending 10,000 gold (roughly), and several hours of my life, to try and do this with several of the ways that I read. I quickly discovered that I easily had 3 pets that could do this. They were as follows:

For my strategy all I did was just pump.. nothing else. Yes, he would kill off the first two, which is fine. But by the time he did die my Hatchling was close to dying but he hit him hard enough with pump it didn't really matter. So if you were struggling like I was and are wanting another way to do this. Above is one way or maybe it will help you to find your own strategy.

Happy Killing/Hunting. :)

Comment by DanJack

I did not have any level 25 Frogs or Toads so, I used these two pets to kill him and it was not too hard 2nd try. If your are lacking pets and happen to have these two give them a try.

Baneling Use this as you second pet. The Baneling when he does not have Ironbark up (when your Baneling is about to die) Never use this as your last pet.Spawn of G'nathus Spawn of G'nathus I used as my 3rd pet, he basically just does a ton of damage to finish him off. (Swallow You Whole and Dive) abilities

Comment by mareimbri83

I tried with the highest level frogs I had (23, uncommon quality) and got owned... ended up going a more unconventional route (all pets lvl 25):

Mini Mindslayer - mana surge and life exchange (middle talent is a matter of personal preference/what other pets you're using)

Crimson Whelpling - I used breath for the first ability; healing flame and lift-off are must-haves

Start with the whelping or the mindslayer (since either one can heal themselves and the idol can't).

I'm not sure which of my pet mods it is, but either PetBattleMaster or PetTracker shows the enemy's active abilities, including what's on CD and for how long. In my 3-4 attempts, I never managed to correctly guesstimate when the first seed would be thrown, so I opted to stop trying to avoid it. He'd throw a seed a few rounds in and heal nearly to full, but my pet would also heal up - basically, after the first seed, we'd be back to square one. After that, though, carrotus reliably uses seed on CD.

Once seed was on CD from the first use, I just nuked and healed, swapping as needed to rotate through heals and keep everyone reasonably topped up while ensuring that I brought either the idol or the dragon back out when there was 1 round left on the seed CD. When I knew he was about to cast seed, I'd use deflection/lift-off to avoid it. Easy fight with the seeds being prevented - at the end, the mindslayer was at 80% health, idol at 73% and dragon at 60%.

Comment by Elanorien

This guy is def the hardest of the 3 you need to fight for the menagerie quest.

I tried a few dif team comps before the one that beat him with only 2 pets: Unborn Val'kyr, Ragnaros, and Mirror Strider (the Strider never being called out).

Opened with the Val'kyr and cast Curse of Doom followed by Haunt, then called out Ragnaros. Cast Magma Trap, Sons of Flame, then spammed Sulfuras Smash until Magma Trap was up again. The trap stunning him a second time followed by another Smash or two finished him.

Good luck!

Comment by Paddyjack

I tried the strats with the frogs but my frogs were too low level, so I tried something different. Thankfully I had an Anubisath Idol, the Deflection ability is first to cast, so it will always be cast before the healing ability and thus you can dodge it.

So the fight went like this:

Stonekin to reduce attacksCrush until he cast his healing, easier to miss the first one and then be able to measure the 4 rounds in between

Comment by Borlarish

Heaps of great little strategies here for beating this annoying pet. Just thought I would quickly add one more for those without the pets a lot of these strategies need.

All I did, was use 2 snails and a crab. First, I sent out 1 of the snails, instantly use shell shield, a single dive, and spam Ooze Touch until either the shell shield had 1 more round to go, or dive was off cooldown. When the first snail went down, I just repeated the process with snail 2.

In another Garrison, I used the same team and starting strategy, but sent out the crab after the first snail died. All I did with the crab, was keep shell shield up, and spam surge. The Shell shield takes out a large chunk of the damage, reducing the heal from the carrots annoying Leech seed.

Obviously, this isn't the fastest of strategies, but it may help anyone who happens to not have higher leveled toads or any of the other pets listed in here.

Comment by Tharox

Started up with Anubisath Idol, threw up a sandstorm. Crush him a few times, and try to block his Leech Seed with Deflection. If you misjudge it no worries yet, but one he's used it once he pretty much uses it on cooldown. Refresh sandstorm if it's finished, if it's close to ending use crush until it does and then swap in Lucky Quilen Cub. If he's about to use Leech Seed then use Burrow to avoid it altogether. If he's not, use Perk Up to heal up. Keep this pet out until you use Burrow and then swap back to Anubisath Idol to keep Sandstorm up. Crush him until he's about to use Leech Seed again and pop Deflection. Keep swapping between these two pets for heals and avoidance and you shouldn't be too hard up. I did have a Gahz'rooki as an aquatic damage dealer but I found it too awkward to swap him in while still being able to avoid his self-heals.

I've no doubt that spamming frog kiss and healing rain is easier, but as someone who was far too lazy to go out and level more pets and therefore ended up spending more time and effort finding ways to get out of doing that this was a good alternative. Good luck, I hope you have carrot soup tonight.

Comment by yornie

when Flat-Tooth Calf is dead.Use Muckbreath.>Use Rip>Use Blood in the Water

Carrotus Maximus Defeated.

Comment by Vetriz

It was a long, tedious battle but what I did was I opened with Zandalari Kneebiter (Black Claw, Hunting Party, Bloodfang). This didn't kill him off unlike Goreface so I switched to a turtle. Shielded up, Headbutted, then used Bite as long as I could until I was forced to switch him out. Finally, I used Marsh Fiddler. Bingo. Used Cocoon Strike+Nature Touch combo on cooldown and Skitter for damage. Eventually the carrot went down but it took awhile. I'm convinced that the Fiddler could solo it but I'm glad that I went the way I did or it would of taken longer.

Comment by Ainyan

Never even got close to using my third pet (a second level 25 Eternal Strider).

Comment by aldrimus

In many ways this is the most frustrating and annoying pet battle they've designed yet...

You will have to gimmick this one, no way around it - his combination of never-ending strong damage reduction with frequent large heals and cleanse is just plain annoying.

Comment by Zellviren

Huge pain in the neck for me personally; either the tactics here didn't work for me (largely due to my own inability to time my blocks), or I just didn't have the right pets at a decent level. In the end, it was simpler for me to simply figure out what the threat is and then use my best pets for dealing with it.

Clearly Leech Seed is the issue, but also his damage reduction.

My trio involved a Nether Faerie Dragon, a Dancing Water Skimmer and an Effervescent Glowfly. Basically, the tactic is to try to DPS Carrotus down with your dragon, then using your last turn to flip health with Life Exchange. After this pet dies, my Skimmer uses Cleansing Rain and then tries to get in as many casts of Pump as possible. Lastly, the fly gives you Glowing Toxin (which is percentage based) and you also have a block for emergencies.

I'm not promising it'll work, but give it a go if nothing else is doing the trick. :)

Comment by PaulRevere

Knocked him out with one pet, Gilded Moth...cocoon strike, moth dust, alpha strike.

Comment by katferr917

I finally got it, I used lvl 25 eternal strider rare water jet healing wave and pump. Second slot is a frog lvl 25 rare water jet healing wave and frog kiss. Third slot Leopard Tree frog lvl 25 rare. All had speeds over 273 so had the advantage of going first. used pump twice then healed then water jet got one more pump but didn't heal quick enough. got frog in and just spammed frog kiss and healing soon as carrot was frog hit him with water jet. when he died put in leopard tree frog and just need about 3/4 hits with water jet and won. Hope this works for you.

Comment by alannaliadon

Defeated with one pet, a level 24 rare Water Frog with Water Jet / Cleansing Rain / Frog Kiss. Make sure to use the Cleansing Rain early so the other spells do extra damage.

Comment by Dahjykun

All I want to know, is whether or not these boss pets can be caught.

Comment by Azaram

What the actual (censored)? Three shotted all my rare level 25s, and most of my stuff did nearly no damage. Frog kiss hit every time, but did nothing at all, not even a '0'. And my gilnean raven's 'always hits if target is blinded' missed every time. Damage is listed on the tooltips for attacks as 444, and IF it manages to hit, it does 50.

Yeah, it's a boss, but 'reduce damage by 50%' would be 222, not 50.

Comment by Tullemus

So far I have tried all of the above mentioned methods - he nukes down my frogs - the moth technique doesn't work either. They do no damage at all due to the reduced damage - worst thing is i have defeated him once on another toon but cant remember the setup. I have now tried to kill him for 3 hours - I dont have the pandaren lvl 25 or chrnimius lvl 25 yet - mabe that will help. But so far ive had no luck with this mob :(

Finally got him down using 3 Rapana Whelk, using shell shield ooze touch - i kept this up until he threw hes first seed then i kept an eye on it and dived when there was 1 turn left for him - as he goes first - then i burned him down.

Comment by j3nesis

Don't know if it's been hotfixed but Howl no longer works. As soon as you use Howl he uses Cleanse to get rid of it and he doesn't even take a turn to do this, so he just attacks you straight away. I'm really stuck on this stupid f***er.

Comment by sfbuck415

did it with two rare level 23 mud jumpers, just spamming Pump, didn't use anything else

Comment by Mascotte

After spending 15k gold, trying everything listed here and failing with everything i ended up soloing him with good old Grunty..Gauss Rifle, Shield Block and Launch.

From my experience he cleansed every Howl/Geyser or whatever i threw at him before i got what i needed, just gave it a go with Grunty and 2 random pets while waiting for pet revive cooldown and got it.Gold well spend..

Comment by smmoore41

I haven't actually looked it up, but since patch 6.1, he dies easily. Only used one pet and it took about 5 rounds. Too easy, took all the challenge out of it.

Comment by Lytha

They have either really nerfed this guy or an Ore Eater is the way to go ... he was the only pet I used to win

Comment by heavenlyice

did this today with my eternal stridercleansing rainpumppumpcarrot was down to 200hpwater jet killed him and my eternal strider was at 1130 of 1400 hp

Comment by gbits

I was all set with a 2-frog+1 lineup, but then my Sea Pony (B/B, but they all are) soloed him. Cleansing Rain, Whirlpool, Jet Jet Jet and he was dead. Maybe have a frog as a backup in case of terrible RNG?